[MAIPC] Choosy deer choose.....natives

[Stephen Hiltner]

This sentence in the article is curious: "But other invasive, introduced
plants -- Oriental bittersweet, European privet, and Morrow's honeysuckle,
and a native plant, red maple -- were highly preferred by deer."

In Princeton, NJ, the deer can often keep multiflora rose and winged
euonymus from growing back after being cut to the ground. Nice to have that
assistance. They don't appear to be interested in privet, honeysuckle or
Asian photinia.

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On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Ossi, Damien (DOEE) <damien.ossi at dc.gov>
wrote:

> Here in DC I have noticed that deer will never browse on English ivy on
> the ground, but will browse on arborescent English ivy.  There’s usually a
> distinct browse line on trees that have English ivy vines growing up them,
> and they will browse the ivy on fallen trees.  I wonder if the leaves
> become palatable when they change from the trefoil shape to the spade shape
> on arborescent, reproductive ivy?
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> Of course, our deer—at a population density of 80/mile^2—may be pretty
> desperate for food items, but they ignore the English ivy (and periwinkle
> and wintercreeper and pachysandra and lesser celandine and honeysuckle)
> that carpets the ground in some of our natural areas.
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> Damien
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> *Damien P. Ossi*
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> *From:* MAIPC [mailto:maipc-bounces at lists.maipc.org] *On Behalf Of *Steve
> Young
> *Sent:* Monday, May 02, 2016 8:55 AM
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> *Cc:* Antonio DiTommaso; Kristine M Averill; Carrie Jean Brown-Lima; Dave
> Mortensen
> *Subject:* [MAIPC] Choosy deer choose.....natives
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> Taste test? Deer preferences seem to be helping non-native invasive plants
> spread
> <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sciencedaily/plants_animals/invasive_species/~3/4yw3dx6RKdc/160428122502.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email>
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